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Space

Success! SpaceX Leads U.S. Return To Crewed Spaceflight

Jeffrey Hill

Monday, June 1st, 2020

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Success! SpaceX Leads U.S. Return To Crewed Spaceflight

The Crew Dragon launch on Saturday, May 30. (Photo from live NASA feed)

It took two attempts, but SpaceX has made history as the first privately owned company ever to launch human beings into space. On Saturday afternoon at approximately 3:22 p.m. EST, SpaceX sent NASA astronauts Bob Behnken and Doug Hurley to the International Space Station (ISS) aboard a Crew Dragon capsule that was mounted on a Falcon 9 rocket and launched from the Kennedy Space Center in Florida. SpaceX also successfully landed the Falcon 9’s first stage engine approximately nine minutes after launch on the…

Congress

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Budget

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Congress

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